Stu Wilson Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 (edited) Does anyone have links to trees that look remotely like the real thing...... The rendering of plants and trees is pretty poor, as the attached shows no resemblance to any Prunus serrulata on earth ! Edited November 23, 2020 by Stu Wilson Quote Link to comment
Stu Wilson Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 and miscanthus has never been blue...! Quote Link to comment
Stu Wilson Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 This is also Stipa tenuissima..... with a purple flower, the correct plant is real life image..! Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 (edited) I prefer the VW version 😁 Kidding aside, yes it would be nice if VW Landmark would get more real or even when abstracted, a more suitable plant representation. But I grew into CAD/3D world when clients asked for a tree and a single 3D tree had 5 times the complexity of the whole architectural model and decided about needing 8 hours vs 7 days to render. I am still a bit afraid of plants in typical CPU renderings. It is just a year or so ago that I got confident by what 3D complexity you can throw into real time GPU renderers like Twinmotion. But now we are there and can add complex geometry, VW plant representation starts aging. For now, depends on how and with which App you want to render your projects, it might be worth to import your own Geometry or Symbols for important plants into VW. Like from XFROG, Laubwerk and such offers. Or even switch to another Software for Rendering like C4D or Twinmotion, where it is easy to replace VW's 3D plant Symbols by other geometry. I think Twinmotion Assets are, beside a few high res examples, also not known for very realistic plants. I think Lumion or Enscape are more pleasing to landscape architects but a) limited in variety and b) Windows only so far. But yes, a valid request. Beside overall visual quality, plants delivered by VW should at least not look like different plants. Hope it will improve. Edited November 23, 2020 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
Stu Wilson Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 For the money, despite all the clever stuff it does, when it comes to actually winning the work i.e: the concept stage presentation, it's dead last. I think I've edited everything I drop on a plan drawing with colour and transparency to get something that doesn't look like sketch up in 2005. Luckily there are 3rd party companies that can produce the initial concepts based on dwg's and my input that will win you the work..!! Quote Link to comment
Jeff Prince Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 @Stu Wilson I'm curious as to what software you consider first place for generating conceptual presentations based upon a model that will eventually be used for construction drawings... In terms of plants, Vectorworks is certainly lagging in the content department. However, it does provide the framework to create smart plant objects based upon your own content, and for that I am grateful. 1 Quote Link to comment
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